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Social Issues

Newscut: Letters that make no census

Newscut: Letters that make no census

Letters are being sent to every household in America this week warning that a census form will soon follow. Newscut's Bob Collins roughly calculates just how expensive the mass-letter was.

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40 years later, Albert Lea looks back on Wilson strike

Before Albert Lea's United Packinghouse Workers Local 6 drew national attention in 1959 for their involvement with the Wilson & Co. strike, they were average citizens just trying to make a living.

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Iraqis defy intimidation to vote, attacks kill 36

Iraqis defy intimidation to vote, attacks kill 36

Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at voters Sunday, killing 31 people in attacks aimed at intimidating those taking part in an election that will determine whether the country can overcome the sectarian divisions that have plagued it since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

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Reporter: More than 200 dead in Nigeria violence

More than 200 bodies - many of them women and children - lay in the streets of a central Nigerian town after a renewed spate of violence between Christians and Muslims, witnesses said Sunday, just months after religious violence tore through a nearby city and left hundreds dead.

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Minority-owned firms receiving fewer stimulus contracts

Minority-owned firms receiving fewer stimulus contracts

Hispanic and black businesses are receiving a disproportionately small number of federal stimulus contracts, creating a rising chorus of demands for the Obama administration to be more inclusive and more closely track who receives government-financed work.

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America in 2050

America in 2050

A leading expert on economic and social trends gives us his predictions for what America will look like in 2050. Joel Kotkin expects our cities and suburbs to become more densely populated, and we'll have an advantage over other countries because of our ethnic diversity.

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Bill Lawrence, Minn. tribal watchdog, dies

Bill Lawrence, a journalist who was a watchdog of Minnesota's tribal governments for more than two decades, has died after a fight with prostate cancer. He was 70.

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